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71 points susam | 2 comments | 13 Apr 25 14:16 UTC | HN request time: 0.556s | source

1. igouy ◴[13 Apr 25 17:05 UTC] No.43674200[source]▶

Also see

"Software Fault Prevention by Language Choice: Why C is Not My Favorite Language"

https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~fateman/papers/software.pd...

2. Rochus ◴[13 Apr 25 17:38 UTC] No.43674450[source]▶

Interesting paper, thanks. The findings concerning C seem reasonable. I would add the very weak type checker and the silly syntax, of which the majority of people only use a fraction (many C constructs are surprising and not generally known) to the issue of the small Hamming distance from one valid syntax construct to another, not intended one. Though I doubt that (Common) Lisp is a valid alternative for the typical C use cases.

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Why Pascal is not my favorite programming language (1981) [pdf]